I just came back from maternity leave. And honestly? I felt like I'd missed a decade in six months. I talked about starting small in my other blog Lost in the AI Hype, I Started Small

I've spent the last fifteen years designing cloud systems. And even I felt behind. AI went from a thing people were experimenting with to a thing everyone's apparently building with, and I had no idea where to start.

So I did what any architect would do. I went back to first principles.

I'm rebuilding my AI mental model from scratch in public. No math. No expert-level coding. Just real problems, the architecture underneath, and honest notes on where things might break.

If you prefer video, please watch Episode 1 of my video series .…